Improvement in thread-cutters for sewing-machines



E.- FLATHER. Thread-Cutter for Sewing-Machine.

No. 207,648. Patented Sept. 3,1878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EDWARD FLATHER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN THREAD-CUTTERS FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,648, datedSeptember 3, 1878; application filed April 16, 1878.

To all whom it may concern- Be it known that I, EDWARD FLATHER, ofBridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Thread-Cutters, of which the followingis aspecification:

The invention provides a sure and efficient thread-cutter forsewing-machines.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of referenceindicate like parts, A, Figure 1, is the needle-bar. Attached to itslower end is the lower thread-guide, B, fastened t0 the bar A by thescrew b. By beveling the shank c of the guide B, I form a sharp, cheap,and simple cutter for severing threads.

I am aware that thread-cutters have heretocutting-edge c.

EDWARD FLATHER.

Witnesses:

E. PARMLY, THOS. L. EVANS.

